Category: History

We’d made a plan to go and look at some graves. A little eccentric perhaps. But in the spirit of humoring the quirks of others, I went along with it. It was my mother’s firm wish to visit the place that her father’s family had come from. And so we went to Norfolk. and…

﻿but the formula works. Take a three day walk out of your door and into the landscape. The dog goes too. Leave the puppy behind in good hands. This is the east coast of England – it is falling into the sea, quite literally and makes small wave and local newspaper headlines on a regular…

Victorian influences will converge at the Chelsea Flower Show next week. The Royal Horticultural Society was given its charter by Prince Albert in 1861. The forerunner of Chelsea, the Great Spring Show, was held that year in Kensington Gardens. Shows and exhibitions were massively popular and the public flocked to gaze at the latest wonder…

is the really yellow one. I stayed with friends on Thursday night and drove through Lavenham yesterday morning. This place was fabulously wealthy in the 15th century on the back of the wool trade. It then became an economic backwater – nobody could afford to knock down and improve. There are about 400 listed timber-framed…